“The bloodiness and horror of it”
Intertextuality in metaphorical accounts of endometriosis pain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21227477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stella Bullo (0000-0002-7402-0819, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphor and the Social World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-4070 • E-ISSN: 2210-4097 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/msw.19002.bul |
| OpenAlex | W3167577195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
In this work, I explore pain descriptions by women who live with the life-altering gynaecological disease of endometriosis. This condition causes incapacitating pain, which tends to be dismissed and normalised as part of the female condition ( Cumberbatch, 2019 ). My aim is to explore the general patterns of pain conceptualisation by women with endometriosis and outline how an in-depth examination of salient elements of narrative scenarios may contribute towards providing a comprehensive understanding of the pain experience. I first examine patterns of metaphorical pain collocates from a corpus generated from online forum contributions. Following this, I explore metaphorical scenarios of pain, focusing on stories that reference popular texts or genres from a conceptual integration perspective. I argue that the combination of metaphor analysis of naturally-occurring data and conceptual intertextuality and interdiscursivity analysis in the metaphorical scenarios of elicited data constitute a methodological niche that allows a holistic assessment of the pain that can potentially be used in consultations and may help tackle the alarming diagnosis delay of endometriosis, which is currently 7.5 years
Conceptual metaphor · Endometriosis · Linguistics · Metaphor · Narrative · Pathology · Salient · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Lexicography and Language Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |